Emmanuel Kelly was born and abandoned into war-torn Iraq. He was raised at an orphanage before being adopted and brought to Australia for life-changing surgery.
Emmanuel's sheer passion for singing, for life, and for `dreaming big' in the face of huge obstacles led him to achieve his dream of becoming a singer.
This is his inspiring story:

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This book was recognised in the Most Inspirational Children's Picture Book category by the International Latino Book Award.

This book is part of a book series called What Really Matters .

This book has been graded for interest at 6+ years.

There are 24 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2019 by Cuento de Luz SL .

Susanna Isern is an award-winning children's books author whose work has been translated into more than nine languages. She is the author of The Winter Train, Bear Wants to Fly, What Are You Scared of Little Mouse? (Silver Medal at the 2015 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards) and The Magic Ball of Wool (Silver Medal at the 2013 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards) among many other children's books. Daniel Montero Galan was born in 1981 in Madrid, and has illustrated over a dozen books. Jon Brokenbrow is an award winning translator with more than 60 children's books translated from Spanish - English. Winner of 2015 IPPY Award for Children's Picture Books with translation of Cyparissus by Marta Sanmamed, and winner of 2013/2014 International Latino Book Awards for Best Translator. The award-winning auhtor Marta Arteaga is a writer of children's literature, poetry, cinematographic scripts, drama plays, songs, personalized stories. Her book Inside my imagination translated into many languages, has been awarded gold medals at the Living Now Awards 2013, International Latino Book Awards 2013 and Moonbeam Children Books Awards 2013. Of Polish origin, award-winning Zuzanna Celej has a BA Honours in fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and Majored in Illustration at the Llotja Art School in Barcelona. Graduate in Information Sciences from the Universidad Complutense, Mamen Sanchez is deputy director of !Hola! magazine and director of !Hola! Mexico. She is married and has five children. She has published seven novels and three books for children. She met Emmanuel Kelly several years ago in Madrid and between them was born a beautiful friendship that extended to his family and continues to grow every day. What she values most in life is the good fortune of being surrounded by wonderful people.